The Press: Toy Beachhead

When Detroit newsmen asked the police to issue new 1949 press
cardsusually a routine procedurethey got a surprise. Last week,
Harry S. Toy, the squat, eagle-beaked police commissioner who has
talked darkly about a "Red revolution in Michigan," said that, to get a
press card, every reporter would have to 1) fill out a form listing his
press experience, and 2) swear that he was not a member of "any
organization affiliated with the Communist Party or Communism."

To the outraged howls that rose from Detroit's city rooms, Toy (known as
"Headline Harry") replied that a press-card holder "gets in not only...